On 2023/11/26 11:36, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 01:52:22PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2023-11-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > > At the end of last year, I did a comprehensive write-up about using
> > > blu-ray
> > > recordable on OpenBSD, and as part of that I checke
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 04:36:43PM -0500, Geoff Steckel wrote:
> On 2023-11-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> >>At the end of last year, I did a comprehensive write-up about using blu-ray
> >>recordable on OpenBSD, and as part of that I checked around 100 BD-R discs
> >>that had been written about 10 ye
On 2023-11-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
At the end of last year, I did a comprehensive write-up about using blu-ray
recordable on OpenBSD, and as part of that I checked around 100 BD-R discs
that had been written about 10 years previously and verified as good at the
time. Ten years laster, I found
On 11/26/23 08:52, Stuart Henderson wrote:
Anyone know whether USB BD-R drives are likely to work on OpenBSD?
I've used several. XD08UMB-S works for reading - haven't tried writing yet.
Earlier ones worked for reading and writing
Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> The one Asus drive I tested had a few quirks, BTW, so I wouldn't be
> inclined to invest in one of those.
Here an Asus player too..
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 01:52:22PM -, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023-11-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > At the end of last year, I did a comprehensive write-up about using blu-ray
> > recordable on OpenBSD, and as part of that I checked around 100 BD-R discs
> > that had been written about 10
On 2023-11-24, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> At the end of last year, I did a comprehensive write-up about using blu-ray
> recordable on OpenBSD, and as part of that I checked around 100 BD-R discs
> that had been written about 10 years previously and verified as good at the
> time. Ten years laster, I
On 2023-11-24, Stephen Wiley wrote:
> I was messing with blueray a couple years ago for archiving. Last I checked
> it's pretty marginal in terms of cost when compared with SSDs.
SSDs are absolutely not suitable for long term archival. They need to be
kept powered to avoid losing data over the me
> Another interesting thread.
Not at all. Hollywood's movies are providing much interesting ideas
about human trying to obtain immortality.
Also midnight psy therapy threads are not very interesting.
On November 24, 2023 2:48:06 PM MST, Crystal Kolipe
wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 04:01:11PM -0500, Stephen Wiley wrote:
>> I was messing with blueray a couple years ago for archiving. Last I checked
>> it's pretty marginal in terms of cost when compared with SSDs.
>
>Archiving to SSD? You
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 04:01:11PM -0500, Stephen Wiley wrote:
> I was messing with blueray a couple years ago for archiving. Last I checked
> it's pretty marginal in terms of cost when compared with SSDs.
Archiving to SSD? You can't be serious. I've seen more spurious unreported
bit flips from
I was messing with blueray a couple years ago for archiving. Last I checked
it's pretty marginal in terms of cost when compared with SSDs. It's just hard
to compete with the progress everyone's been making with semiconductor
manufacturing. I don't think the larger capacity disks I bought are all th
Il 22/11/2023 04:16, i...@tutanota.com ha scritto:
Ever since I read a post on @misc from Nick Holland to someone asking
about running a large filesystem on OpenBSD, in which Nick wrote:
[...]
Then for every important big file use something like par2cmdline to
create parity data.
[...]
Of
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 08:32:20AM +1000, Stuart Longland VK4MSL wrote:
> On 22/11/23 18:25, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> >1. Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
> >media and take it out of the regular backup loop. In most cases this
> >drastically reduces the vo
On 22/11/23 18:25, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
1. Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
media and take it out of the regular backup loop. In most cases this
drastically reduces the volume of data you need to manage. Feel free
to keep a local on-line copy on a
Geoff Steckel :
> Of course, there's one storage medium verified to last for centuries.
> Good ink on rag paper stored dry. Papyrus is good for millenia.
> Not entirely a joke.
This needs any bullet-proof..
On 11/22/23 20:31, j...@bitminer.ca wrote
For long-term storage, you have other risks to manage, not the
simple technical risk of "will my portable-USB disk be readable in
2038?".
Interfaces die - IDE interface cards? Even if you have one the ISA bus
might not be available. Parallel SCSI, para
And speaking from experience, it's _much_ more reliable than DVD-R or
CD-R as
long as the discs are correctly written in the first place.
For long-term storage, you have other risks to manage, not the
simple technical risk of "will my portable-USB disk be readable in
2038?".
If you are a ho
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:23:40PM +0100, i...@tutanota.com wrote:
> > Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
> > media and take it out of the regular backup loop.
>
> What kind of write-only media do you use/recommend?
It depends on quite a few factors including the
> Once data is no longer "work in progress", archive it to write-only
> media and take it out of the regular backup loop.
What kind of write-only media do you use/recommend?
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Maja Reberc wrote:
> Does anyone recommend FAT32-formatted 1 TB external HDDs for
> OS-portable backups (using archive splitting to bypass the 4 GB limit)?
> I've heard FAT32 is very inefficient with big partitions. I currently
> have a mess of ext4 for Lin
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:47:11 -0300
Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> I don't want to encourage people to just copy and paste some random
> scripts that were written to meet our needs but most likely don't
> exactly meet theirs.
>
> But as a _starting point for writing your own_, the following script
> wil
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Maja Reberc wrote:
> Would you mind sharing the scripts you mentioned for us newbies?
I don't want to encourage people to just copy and paste some random scripts
that were written to meet our needs but most likely don't exactly meet theirs.
But as a _star
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:25:22 -0300
Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> We have been doing "something similar", in fact much simpler, on
> OpenBSD and other unix-like systems for > 25 years.
>
> It's trivially simple to protect your data, and you along with
> 99.999% of other people seem to be over thinking i
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 04:16:00AM +0100, i...@tutanota.com wrote:
> Running disks in RAID1 or RAID5 (pick your poison) with softraid.
>
> Then for every important big file use something like par2cmdline to
> create parity data.
>
> par2cmdline can be used to verify and re-create files.
>
> I wo
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